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Definition of Saponaria officinalis
1. Noun. Plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Saponaria, Saponaria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saponaria Officinalis
Literary usage of Saponaria officinalis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"Soapwort, or bouncing bet (saponaria officinalis L.), a common roadside weed with
a handsome flower, has a roughened, dark brown seed smalle. than cockle ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"saponaria officinalis L. Soapwort. Bouncing Bet. London Pride. ... Saponaria
officinalis L. Sp. Pl. 408. 1753. Perennial, glabrous, erect, stout,, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"302), in the roots of saponaria officinalis, before flowering time, ... 548) in
the common soapwort (saponaria officinalis), and some time afterwards by ..."
4. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"Soapwort, or bouncing bet (saponaria officinalis L.), a common roadside weed with
a handsome flower, has a roughened, dark brown seed smalle. than cockle ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"saponaria officinalis L. Soapwort. Bouncing Bet. London Pride. ... Saponaria
officinalis L. Sp. Pl. 408. 1753. Perennial, glabrous, erect, stout,, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"302), in the roots of saponaria officinalis, before flowering time, ... 548) in
the common soapwort (saponaria officinalis), and some time afterwards by ..."
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